Mitchell broke her preparations for London's July Games on Wednesday to film her role in a Fox Sports promotion for the network's Olympics coverage.

"It's going to be really different to anything I've done before and it's really exciting," she said. "There's a bunch of Olympic athletes and they kind of morphed us all into one sequence, so it'll go from a diver, into me doing something, into a taekwondo person doing something else."

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So good to get some news from camp. Wish it listed the national ranking of the gymnasts following the camp and verification. Would anyone be so kind as to provide the names of the gymnasts from the group photo provided? There are a couple of faces I'm unsure of (and no, I don't mean a very different looking Dasha lol)

Mine too, Anon@ 4.38! I think Katie is the best dancer of the current seniors. It is my dream that she is healthy enough for long enough to make a team and show the world what she can do. Zoe is so dynamic and could definitely contribute on vault; wonder what her bars and beam are looking like? And Angela is just a huge talent; regardless of what happens this cycle, I hope she continues for the next, I think she could end up being a core team member.

GA is pathetic - have often asked them to add captions aka name lists to photos - otherwise pointless!The annual report and annual awards were updated on their website how long ago?Imagine the Rugby or AFL reporting in this manner, at least a comprehensive dialogue of this camp is required.The Olympic trials will be a competition of an epic proportion, background stories engaging, so far the media interest? Silence!!GA, start investing wisely the exorbitant dollars being ripped off from the participants of Nationals.

Is Olivia still in contention for Olympic selection, seeing as she didn't attend camp? Obviously Georgia's injury prevented her from attending, but if she can recover in time, she's got to be a chance of making of the team, right?

I don't know if attendance at the camp is a selection criteria since GA haven't posted it as far as I know. I can't see us taking a bars specialist on a team of 5 though. Maybe she just wants to represent her state?

Australia's biggest problem at the moment is that none of the girls appear to be both good on vault and bars. Chung could feel this spot if she gets her DTY and full UB set going. Joura and Sims could also be useful on these events but nobody seems to know what level they are at yet.

Mitchell is a lock for the team. Even if she could only compete beam or floor she would be taken as she is Australia's only medal chance. At this point in time Little is looking to be Australia's top AAer and the new 5 team format requires AAers. So if you have Mitchell and Little already on the team the next 3 girls have to be able to do bars otherwise they would need to count Little's UB. Anyone aiming for the team needs to start improving on bars ASAP as that's the ticket on to the team. A bars specialist could easily be taken to offset Mitchell being a three eventer.

Pretty sure the girls realise this - hence Monckton upgrading her bars and Ashleigh going helter skelter on working bars again to regain her AAer status. Chloe too knows this is her best chance and has been working bars incessantly. Same too with Larrissa, Georgia Rose and Nikki Chung, I am sure.

Definitely agree we need bars workers - just don't think there is room for someone who only can contribute on bars in a team of 5. Chung has usable bars and vault, Miller bars and floor, GRB bars and floor, Georgia S bars and beam and maybe floor. So unless Olivia has upgraded beam or floor there are equally good bar workers who can be used on other events - at least in qualifications. This is going to be the most interesting nationals in years. Last Olympics I remember the Olympic selection being much more obvious. There were only about 8 real contenders for 6 places so not too difficult to predict.

In other news, congrats to Mel Jones on making floor finals at NCAA Nationals, and Shona Morgan on helping Stanford to a 4th place finish in a very tight team final. No love for Liv Viv unfortunately... OSU had a rough outing in preliminaries.

Olivia might have difficulty adjusting to the FIG bar setting, in NCAA they are allowed to have the bars set as wide as they want, and she had difficulty adjusting when she came back for national championships a few years ago. Will she have enough time to adjust and upgrade? What happened to (please forgive me I can't remember her name exactly) Ullin? I think she was from Vic. She had lovely bars.

I really don't think olivia will be making a run. Maybe she has been added to the WA state team, but that really doesn't mean much in terms of Olympic selection I wouldn't think. She has been living and breathing NCAAs for months now, not to mention ehr final year of college. When would she even have seen or talked to Peggy? I don't even think there's a big chance she'll return to Australia simply to WATCH Nationals

Dasha did score a 15.200 on her DTY. Larrissa Miller stuck her Arabian as a second pass on floor (14.05) and Wurth went OOB. And there is a video of Chloe Sims on BB on my Facebook. Friend it if you want- http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1368262961

Wow! That's 9.4 execution right? Must have been pretty good. I have just been through the results on the AA forum - can't find another DTY anywhere near this. The only vaults scoring higher are the US Amanars.

Qld states, I was there. Dasha did a good DTY, but not sure if 15.20, maybe a 14.70. Chloe Sims did a front pike half and landed low and must have given herself whiplash by the looks of the landing. Katie Wurth put hands down on floor on a yurchenko full. Amaya did a front pike half, was ok, step forward. Chloe had a disaster on bars, falling twice and and extra swing. Katie hit a full routine, not sure what the d score is. Larrissa is so beautiful on bars, just went over on a shootover to handstand, but the rest of it was very good with a stuck landing. Amaya hit a stock routine with many execution errors. Sharlee fell two or three times, not good. On beam, Chloe fell on turn and had a very low deep squat landing on a double front dismount with legs very far apart, lots of wobbles. Katie hit her routine then fell on two and half twist dismount. Amaya stayed on beam, but her legs are bent on everything she does. Chloe did not do floor. Dasha did full in for first pass, two and a half twist plus punch front half, then just did a layout split jump for last pass, she had good leaps and jumps, out there dance, not sure what the judges thought of it and her black lipstick. Larrissa got new music and dance. Stuck a layout front full plus layout front double twist. Again, stuck double arabian tuck. Third pass was two and half twist plus layout front, then fourth pass double pike with a step forward. Three of the four tumbles were stuck. The dance was really classical with opera like music, really nice. Katie hit all her passes with a big step out of bounds on last line of two and half twist. Amaya hit all her tumble lines, must only be 4.9 or 5.0 d score. Legs are bent and not full split on any leaps.

Anon 4.37 ... You were a bit harsh on Amaya And Chloe were you really watching the same girls I was . Amaya hit a beautiful beam routine not bent like you said and Chloe did a good job as well I agree the dismount was low , all the girls did very well your account of events seems very biased and doesn't reflect a true account of events !!!

Have the western Aus girls had three trials in lead up to Nationals there seems to be prelim scores and final scores all in trial 2 can someone please explain what this means for those of us who aren't up with these terminologies

Thanks anon 1.16 ... its a shame Queensland doesn't follow this same competition schedule , as it would allow the girls more competition practice like the other states we only have two trials to qualify.....

Apparently the "draft"ness of it only refers to the times of each session. The actual competition parts are set down for those days and general times of the days. I guess they just still want a little flexibility in being able to move things back or forwards a little way, such as half an hour etc.